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In conventional interface design, manipulated objects are visually represented and an actor of manipulation is a user’s physical body. Although it is a bodily contact between the user and the virutla objects, these virtual objects are detached from the user’s physical body and are usually operated as target objects through an interface device. We propose a new type of embodied interaction based on visual-somatosensory integration to evoke localization of a user’s body-image within a visual object on a screen. The major difference between conventional interation and the proposed framework is whether the center of the user’s body-image is localized within the screen or outside of the screen. When the user’s body-image is outside of the screen, manipulation of screen objects is transitive action, or target operation under a subject-object structure. In contrast, when the user’s body-image is localized within a screen object, the operation of the object becomes intransitive action and the user operates the screen object as if he moves a part of his body. Although object manipulation as intransitive action indeed has a history as long as interface design itself, it has not yet been exposed to thorough inspection. To qualitatively analyze intransitive manipulation and effect of body-image localization, which we think is a core factor, we implemented an interactive system based on several proposed design principles and exhibited the system at a gallery opened for the public to collect qualitative evidences on the effect.
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Saito, T., Sato, M. (2009). Fly! Little Me: Localization of Body-Image within Reduced-Self. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Interaction Methods and Techniques. HCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02577-8_28
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